Flag Of Mississippi Proposal

In june 2020 stennis stepped back from the effort to change the 1894 flag citing potential harm associated with her last name which she shares with her grandfather who was a segregationist for much of his career.

Flag of mississippi proposal. Final 2 mississippi flag proposals. Her proposal was originally dubbed the declare mississippi flag but was popularly called the stennis flag. As mississippi replaces its former flag that had the confederate battle emblem five proposals were literally run up a flagpole tuesday. Magnolias stars a gulf coast lighthouse a teddy bear and even kermit the frog appear on some of the over 1 800 proposals submitted by the general public for a new mississippi flag and posted.

Nearly 2 700 public proposals to replace mississippi s state flag have been released online including some that feature beer cans elvis presley and kermit the frog. As mississippi replaces its former flag that had the confederate battle emblem five proposals were literally run up a flagpole tuesday. A group then narrowed the choice to two designs. A mississippi commission on wednesday selected the final design proposal to replace the state s current flag after the legislature voted to retire it earlier this summer because of its inclusion.

One of five final designs for the new mississippi state flag flutters in the breeze outside the old capitol museum in jackson miss aug. In late june mississippi legislators voted to retire the last. The mississippi department of archives and history posted the flag. 25 2020 in jackson miss.

A group then narrowed the choice to two designs.